STREETS A SHAMBLES

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17165, 23 March 1927, Page 5

STREETS A SHAMBLES

MASSES OF HEADLESS DEAD. BRITISH SOLDIERS FIRING. Received Wednesday. 12.5 a.m. SHANGHAI, March 22. Hankow reports that all Chinese employees in the foreign banks struclc yesterday. The banks are picketed. The strikers threaten to shut off food supplies to the staffs of foreign banks which are consequently closjng. Five foreign owned1 motor cars were perforated with bullets. In the area of Shanghai firing is indiscriminate. Every passer-hy is trcated to pot shots. British soldiers living in the boundaries are replying to snipcrs from sandbags and barriers. It is fmpossible to tally the casualties on Ihe Chinese side of the harrier. Native refugees entering the settlements state that the streets are littered with de.ad and headless hodies as the result of continuous guerilla war taro between the Cantonese and the northeners who are "efusing to submit. All +he white Russlan Shangtung Army fled to Ihe settlement oyer-

night giving up their rifles and ammunition before entering. They declare that they were willir^f to continue to fight the Cantonese but were deserted by the Chinese troops. They themselves- deserted in disgust. The main Canton army continues its victorious advance along the Shanghai-Nanking railway sweeping towards Shanghai and the Nanking border to complete the capture of all territory South of Yangtze.